feet and constitutes the only untilled portion of Renovo proper. But on scaling this, Mr. Beck found no birds at all. The best results were obtained by wading the hot springs lagoon across to the island of Simbo. Here we found minors, long-tails, common fruit pigeons, both kinds of flycatchers, the white-headed kingfishers, the medium-sized brown breasted kingfisher, starlings, and the red-throated honeysucker. There appeared to be no white-eyes whatsoever on this island, no red-knobbed pigeons, and no cockatoos. There were no cockatoos on Ganonga, but it is remarkable that there are no white-eyes on Simbo for they were abundant on Ganonga, and the distance between by water is only six miles as the crow flies. The common fruit pigeon, white-breasted and with the blue-green back, seems to take the place of the red-knobbed pigeon which was so common on Ganonga. Starlings, megapodes, fruit pigeons, and minors were everywhere and exceedingly common. We also found several purple and green broadbills. But all the other birds were scarce, and except for the flycatchers, fantails, and honey-eaters, there were no small birds at all. Simbo is evidently a large bird island. Dr. Drowne had a shot at a large eagle hawk, and Mr. Beck shot two river heron. Outside the harbor there is a semi-circular barrier reef and here, besides finding the nests of land pigeon, Mr. Beck took a day off for shooting the tern which